Bronwen Astor - Her Life And Times

Skillful study of a British pseudo-aristocrat and fundamentalist Christian eccentric, Bronwen Viscountess Astor. It includes excellent descriptions of "modern" living in one of England's last stately homes (Cliveden), which is now a super-luxury hotel. However, the author's sympathy toward this unstable liberal elite, unseated by the notorious Profumo scandal, is totally misplaced. The 1960's Paris supermodel, obscenely wealthy widow and psychotherapist of questionable repute remains a poster-girl for what destroyed Great Britain: Its shallow, egocentric and vicious upper class.